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Had a song stuck in my head for some reason, so I changed the words a little ;)
This is a story about a man named Jed.
Bought separate IP's to try and keep his family fed.
Then one day he was checking on his plan,
only to find his domains had received a ban.
Next thing you know all the SE traffic was gone,
because the rest of the IP's on that block acted very wrong,
they belonged to one guy that treated Google like his bitch.
Google got mad and banned the block without a flinch.
A server move had no effect.
It's been years and the domains are still wrecked.
The moral of the story is not just about
having separate IP's to gain some clout.
If you have lotsa bad eggs in your neighborhood,
you can bet, it will do you no good.
end..
Of course this was an extreme situation as I shared this IP block with one other guy on a virtual host that is long gone. I believe his sites were like the redirecting/virus .edu domains that dominate Google for porn searches today.
Hopefully hosts take a few more precautions to keep stuff like this from happening, like a limit per user, per block if it's a shared block or something. I don't think it happens that often, but it certainly does happen.
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